Re: Which Fins are best for which scenario?

[Sean Grier]

Well Terry, I'm too cheap to have 2 sets of fins for 2 different occasions, and I use both a floattube for the high country lakes and a pontoon for drive up lakes.  However, I WOULD like to find some of those more lightweight folding fins for backpacking.  I've finally gotten a good pair of goretex waders (Orvis Silver label) and the difference in weight compared to my neoprenes is eyepopping!  It's so much easier to throw the floattube, some flies, waders, reel and extra spool, and some extra clothes into the backpack and just take off.  A 4 mile hike-in lake is much more appealing than it used to be. I do notice that I make more surface noise with my standard Caddis floattube fins when using my pontoon than I do with the same fins and my tube (duh!).   I imagine the force fins, as nice as they are for walking on shore, would make even more commotion in a pontoon.  I've never seen anything other than those 2 kinds, plus the old standby scuba fins.  Are there more? Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought I would throw out a topic that I haven�t seen on this board yet to get some opinions about which fins to use for O-Boats and U-Boats where you are down in the water verses those like the Fat Cat or a pontoon boat where you are sitting out of the water for the most part.  It seems to me that the kicking motion you would use in each of these three cases would be different, therefore up-curved fins like the Force Fin may work better when you are down in the water and kicking by raising and lowering your legs rather than up out of the water in the case of the Fat Cat or pontoon where you are just bending your knee to move your lower leg forward and back.  I�d like to hear some thoughts on the topic.  Terry Warwick Carnation, WA